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From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz•com>
To: "git@vger•kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Repository data loss in fast-export with a merge of a deleted submodule
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:06:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC12E8B.3050909@workspacewhiz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB2BBB5.3030908@workspacewhiz.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Jensen
Date: 11/3/2011 10:05 AM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joshua Jensen
> Date: 10/27/2011 1:27 PM
>> We had a submodule that we deleted and then added back into the 
>> repository at the same location as the former submodule.  When 
>> running fast-export, the newly 'added' files for the merge commit are 
>> listed and then are followed with a:
>>
>> M ... path/to/submodule/file
>> D path/to/submodule
>>
>> On fast-import, the resultant repository becomes corrupt due to the 
>> Delete instruction above occurring AFTER the file 
>> adds/modifications.  The new repository does not match the old 
>> repository where the fast-export was performed.
>>
>> I am not familiar with the fast-export code.  Can anyone help out?
> Okay, I looked into this further, and I came up with a patch that 
> works for me.  Nevertheless, I do not understand exactly what is going 
> on here, so I would like to defer to someone else's patch to fix the 
> issue.
>
Hi.

__This is a genuine data loss problem in Git.__

I'm confused at the lack of response to this.  I first posted about the 
issue **2-1/2 weeks ago**, and there have been no responses  Does no one 
care?

In case no one received the messages, you can find them at [1] and [2].

-Josh

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg168295.html
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg168691.html

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 19:27 Repository data loss in fast-export with a merge of a deleted submodule Joshua Jensen
2011-11-03 16:05 ` Joshua Jensen
2011-11-14 15:06   ` Joshua Jensen [this message]
2011-11-14 19:51     ` Jens Lehmann
2011-11-30  7:15     ` Jeff King

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